Hi, >In that regard, I am wondering if the team has discussed switching to debian as the base Yes, it has been discussed a few times, usually for other reasons though.
It's not as simple as editing base="ubuntu" to base="debian", and unfortunately, most of the people who ask us for it seem to think so. >because it seems that ubuntu cares less about their users and privacy these days. We are using Ubuntu as a base, we don't ship ubuntu-desktop and honestly that's where most of the criticism to Ubuntu's lack of privacy concerns lies - the Amazon in the Dash thing. We don't have that, so I don't really see how switching to Debian would help us respect our users' privacy more. Cheers, David On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Tristan Petersen <trista...@me.com> wrote: > Sergey > > Glad you touched on security & privacy concerns. I am new to the > elementary dev community, but I am wondering if there has been any talk > among the team in this regard. I was drawn to elementary for its simplicity > and beauty but at the same time I have strong concerns about security and > privacy, more so in light of the NSA revelations. > > In that regard, I am wondering if the team has discussed switching to > debian as the base because it seems that ubuntu cares less about their > users and privacy these days. > > Cheers, > Tristan > > > On 4 February 2014, at 23:35 , Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: > > > Okay, it's there and back again! I've just arrived home, got only 1 hour > of sleep on the plane, so take everything I say in the next 18 hours with a > grain of salt. > > > > FOSDEM was tons of fun! I've kicked it off by donating to GNOME - "Hey > guys, I'm from elementary, we need you to keep up the good work on the > libraries!", to Libre Graphics Magazine - "Oh, you're from elementary? You > guys have some great designers!" (btw, great magazine, I definitely > recommend it to everyone in here who's interested in design), to TOR just > to get an awesome Snowden poster, and finally running into a guy from Jolla > totally by accident, finding out the Jollla schedule for the day and then > sieging him with questions - "Y U NO ship to Russia?!" and so on. > > > > I really look up to the ex-Nokia developers and designers who went on to > found Jolla - Maemo was a-w-e-s-o-m-e and Sailfish is going to be even > better! So I proceeded to attend their talk about libhybris and then their > community roundtable (it seems my experience making distros and poking > security has come in handy) and finally a community dinner, whee! Now I > know everything I ever wanted about their phone, even got to play with one > for a while. Also chatted with the developers (my N900 caused quite some > nostalgia), plus I got a free hat with "Jolla" on it. Fanboy's dream come > true, that! > > > > I kinda missed having an elementary tee, I guess I should have ordered > one in advance. No instant props out of nowhere! Looking back, I don't > think I ever did anything not worthy of a representative of the project > (for once!), so hopefully next year... > > Too bad nobody else of ours made it there - or just never told me? I'd > love to meet you guys in person. In your absence I had to hit up random > Mozilla guys and discussing fun stuff like Rust and Serval. When I could > find them, anyway :( > > > > And man, the talks! There were just so many of them! I'll be watching > the ones I missed later on the recordings for sure. No way you can attend > all the interesting ones in just two days. For the security- and > privacy-concerned like me I especially recommend the "NSA operation > ORCHESTRA" keynote, it's great. Software archeology also, for the general > audience. And "What's cooking in GStreamer" will be interesting to people > who work with it. > > > > By the way, Brussels itself is very nice - amazing sculptures > everywhere! A lot of lions among them, too. The royal square alone can be > studied for hours. Definitely recommended. > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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